Kees Wapenaar received a Ph.D. (1986, cum laude) in Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), the Netherlands. From 1986 until 1999 he was associate professor and co-project leader of the Delphi research consortium in the Department of Applied Physics at TU Delft. In 1999 he was appointed Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Professor in the Department of Geoscience and Engineering. From 2002 until 2022 he has been head of the Geophysics and Petrophysics research group at that department. Since 2022 he is emeritus professor in the same group. His research interests include wave theory and its applications in seismic imaging and interferometric methods. He received SEG’s best paper in GEOPHYSICS award (2006), the Virgil Kauffman Gold Medal (2010), EAGE’s Conrad Schlumberger Award (2013) and an ERC Advanced Grant from the European Union (2016). From 2007 until 2009 he served as Editor-in-Chief of GEOPHYSICS.

Dr. Song Hou is the Head of the AI Lab at Viridien, leading a global AI team advancing geoscience workflows through cutting-edge artificial intelligence, with a recent focus on large language models and AI agents.